Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-07-28
Our State Candidates.

both as unusually strong before the people @
Z the State.
: Thomas Edward Powell, our candidate 70
: Governor, was born in Delaware, Delawar
county, Ohio, February %, 1912, and is con
sequently forty-five years old. He was so1
of Hon. Thomas W. Powell an eminen
lawyer and legal author of considerable note
He is of Welch decent, his father having beer
born in Wales. He is graduate of the Ohit
Wesleyan University, and is one of its resi-
dent trustees. He received the best of educa
tional advantages and was wise enough tt
improve his opportunities. He entered Ohio
Wesleyan University as member of the clas:
of '63. In May 1862, however, he relinquish
ed his studiesto enlist in the S4th o. V. L.
with which regiment he served during the
five months of its existence. Returning tc
Delaware he resumed his studies and gradual
ed in 1864. In that year he again enlisted a:
a private in the ranks of the 145th o. V. L
and served five months. Upon receiving his
discharge he became q law student in the Of
fee of the late Colonel William P. Reid, OF
Delaware, and, on being admitted to practice
he became his partner under the firm name
of Reid & Powell. He early exhibited great
natural ability for the science flaw, and his
studious habits, and untiring energy, soon
won for him prominent position in his pro-
fession. In 1872 he commenced an active
career in politics, going on the stump in the
Greeley campaign, doing effective work for
the party. In 1875 he was nominated by the
Democracy for the position of Attorney
General and ran ahead of the ticket, the
majority for his competitor being less than
that given to R. B. Hayes, who was elected
| Governor over William Allen. In 1882 his
party, contrary to his wishes made him the
nominee for Congress in this, the 9th dis
trict, and while not elected, he exhibited his
popularity by leading the ticket, being de-
feated by about four hundred votes, while
the district was carried by the Republican
State ticket by nearly twice that amount. In
the campaign of 1885, at the earnest solicita-
ton of Governor Hoadly and other promi-
nent members of the party, he accepted the
Craftsmanship of the Democratic State Exec
utive Committee. That year the tide was
against the party, and the campaign resulted
adversely. Five years ago Mr.. Powell open
ed a law Office in the city of Columbus, and
in brief time secured a lucrative practice,
which has steadily increased, until now it is
one of the best in that city.
The nominee for Lieutenant Governor,
Dewitt Clinton Goodman, of Portage County,
is native of that county, having been born
in Ravenna, where he still resides. In 1928
he obtained his education in the Public
Schools of Ravennaand in Allegheny College,
at Meadville, Penn. His education finished
he; entered the engineering crops of the
Cleveland and Pittsburg Railway in 1s47
when nineteen years of age. From 1850 to
1870 he was Chief Engineer of the Atlantic
and Great Western Road, which Of late
years has been known as the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio Road. In 1870
he abandoned the engineering profession,
and has since been engaged in the manu-
facture Of glass, being the proprietor Of
large glass works in Reyenna. Mr.. Goldman
comes of good old Democratic stock, his
father having represented Portage County in
the General Assembly for four terms.
Lyman R. Critchfeld, ! Se nominee for
Supreme Judge for the long term, is fifty six
years of age. After graduating in 1852 from
the Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware,
Ohio, he entered upon the study of law in the
Office of George E. Pugh, in Columbus, in
1854. He was admitted to the bar and was
for the following year deputy clerk in one
Of the Superior Courts of Cincinnati. Four
years later, having in the mean time remoy-
ed to Millersburg, he was elected Prosecut-
ing Attorney of Holmes County on the
Democratic ticket. Two years later he was
reelected to the same office. In 1862 he was
elected Attorney General of Ohio. Three
years later he was elected to represent his
Senatorial District in the Ohio Senate. Three
years later still he was nominated for Con-
gress by the Democrats of the Holmes,
Wayne, Lorain, Ashland and Medinia Dis
trict, and cut the usual Republican majority
of 1900 down to paltry 470 votes. He prac-
ticed law in Wooster from 1863 to 1872 and
in Cleveland from 1872 to 1873. While res
ident Of Cleveland he was nominated for
the position of City Solicitor and Judge Of
the Common Pleas Court.
Hon. Virgil P. Kline, of Cleveland, is the
candidate for Supreme Judge, short term
Mr.. Kline is one Of the foremost lawyers of
the Cuyahoga County Bar, and was born at
Conneaut, Ashtabula County, fortyfonr years
ago. He graduated first from Hiram College
and then from Williams University. Fifteen
years ago he located in Cleveland and studied
law With William e. Slade, whose partner he
afterward became. Later he became as
sociated with j. NJ. Henderson, whose part
ner he now is. He has been nominated for
Common Pleas Judge and for the Circuit
Bench In the county, and has also been a
member Of the School Board. He is gentle
man who will add strength to the ticket
Mr.. Kline is now in Boston, and the nomina-
ton will be surprise to him.
Emil Kiesewetter, renominated for State
Auditor and the present incumbent. Is a
native Of Germany, and Ias bSsaSat BY bis